Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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• Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Winter

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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• Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Spiritual, Believe, Rocks

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• In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Heart, Feelings

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• Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Fire, Mold, Hammers

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• I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Pain, Sweat, Each Day

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• Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Home, Night

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.124

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• They lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.321

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• The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Religious, Wine, Religion

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• You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Father, Cutting, Perfect

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• I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Feet, May, Praying

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.174

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• O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Heaven, Would Be

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• I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Adversity, Winter, Water

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• There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Suffering, Affliction, Fellowship

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.242

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• The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Father, Thinking

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487

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• When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Brother, Pain, Home

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• No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Lord, Pens

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.344

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• Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Soul, Lord, Crops

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• Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Tree, Nests, Woods

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• There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Taste, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.259

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• I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Waiting, Way

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.435

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• Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Sea, Land

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.92

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• I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Prayer, Errands, Praying

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.148

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• Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Patience, Soul

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.360

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• Grace grows best in winter.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Winter, Grace, Grows

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